I think I’ve mentioned it before, but if you haven’t read it, or read it lately: ‘The Village That Voted The Earth Was Flat‘ is one of Rudyard Kipling’s finest short stories. It got included in a Kipling fantasy anthology once under the flimsy rationalization that revenge fantasies count, and I for one applaud that editor’s creativity. Also, it’s a fascinating look at Edwardian England, in and of itself. Check it out.
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“The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat.”
I’ve referenced Rudyard Kipling’s immortal The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat in the past, but I’ve just spent the last hour or so rereading it instead of writing posts, and I can’t say that I regret playing hooky. It and On the Gate really are Kipling’s best short stories. Well, they’re my favorite ones, at least. And I really wish that the conditions that produced the latter – making the world of the former as thoroughly lost as Atlantis – had never, ever happened.
Tonight’s reading – well, not assignment.
But you’ll like this Kipling story, originally found in A Diversity of Creatures
Crossposted to RedState.